Chryseobacterium indologenes sepsis due to an infected central catheter in a patient with metastatic breast cancer to the skin

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 403-405

  Cone, Lawrence A ^a,b   Morrow, Ariella A ^a   Benson, Mark ^a   Younes, Bachir ^a,b   Gade Andavolu, Radhika ^b  

^a EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Genetic Research Institute of the Desert   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBOPLATIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; GEMCITABINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; PACLITAXEL; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM INDOLOGENES; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDWELLING CATHETER; LABORATORY TEST; MAMMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN METASTASIS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 36248956552     PISSN: 10569103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IPC.0b013e318050d23b     Document Type: Article

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